AW S5 Airplane Mode behavior?

[CMoore515]

Did Apple change the way the watch works when in Airplane mode?

I sleep with my watch on to track sleep, I have always toggled Airplane mode and Theater Mode dating back to my S2, I believe.

Previous to my S5 I'd swipe up, turn on Airplane and Theater modes, and it would cut all signals coming from my phone, as it should. (Wouldn't even show in the batteries widget)

Lately I've noticed that when I do this, I still get notifications and the watch doesn't disappear from the batteries widget. That indicates to me that the watch is still receiving signal or something from the watch.

Did Apple change this or is my watch behaving strangely? Just curious.

 

[H57]

Did Apple change the way the watch works when in Airplane mode?

I sleep with my watch on to track sleep, I have always toggled Airplane mode and Theater Mode dating back to my S2, I believe.

Previous to my S5 I'd swipe up, turn on Airplane and Theater modes, and it would cut all signals coming from my phone, as it should. (Wouldn't even show in the batteries widget)

Lately I've noticed that when I do this, I still get notifications and the watch doesn't disappear from the batteries widget. That indicates to me that the watch is still receiving signal or something from the watch.

Did Apple change this or is my watch behaving strangely? Just curious.

You need to turn the Bluetooth connection to off on your watch. If you want to save a little more battery also turn off location services again on your watch as well.

 

[CMoore515]

You need to turn the Bluetooth connection to off on your watch. If you want to save a little more battery also turn off location services again on your watch as well.

Turning off Bluetooth on the watch accomplished my goal. Seems like an unnecessary step when I never used to have to do that, but at least there is a solution.

thank you!!

 

[bruinsrme]

to answer the question, as I had the same question a week ago. YES apple did change airplane mode for the watch